Don, an eighty-year-old jazz pianist, and Sarah, a sixty-nine-year old clinical psychologist, spent twenty-two relatively content years together as monogamous lovers, despite their wildly different interests and personalities. One summer at her youngest son’s wedding, a handsome, seventy-year-old former Jesuit priest asked Sarah to dance. She soon fell head over heels into an intoxicating, passionate relationship with him that belied their years. After a beguiling and giddy courtship, that romance abruptly blew up in her face.
Told from the alternating points of view of Don and Sarah, Entangled is an honest and moving memoir in two voices about the devastating consequences of a love affair gone wrong. When Sarah returned to Don, he discovered that she had kept a journal of her affair, and he agreed to join her in reconstructing, through writing, what had happened to them. Entangled is the culmination of this courageous undertaking in the face of pain and betrayal. Their willingness to confront difficult truths led to a relationship that, while changed and injured by circumstance, was still a rich and vibrant source of friendship and acceptance.
Don Asher was a jazz pianist and author of nine books, including Notes from a Battered Grand and a biography of Hampton Hawes. His books have been reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, the Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Chronicle. An avid tennis player, he was a longtime resident of San Francisco.
Dr. Lois Goodwill is a retired clinical psychologist. Born in Montreal, Canada, she holds degrees from McGill University in Montreal and the Wright Institute in Berkeley. She enjoys attending theater and symphony performances and volunteer work. She is an enthusiastic hiker and walker. She is the mother of four children and grandmother of twelve. She lives in San Francisco.
